Wearing the same dress as your boss at work!

hi joycseer, first of all, thanks a ton for posting this discussion. wait a minute, it sounds familiar, what say? LOL! no, i did not tried to be a copyrat, i mean a copycat. ok, now i'll cut the crab, i mean cut the crap, and back to your question. first of all, it's nothing wrong (on your side) if you are wearing something similar to your boss at work. the only issue is on your boss' side whether she is a person who cares about her whole outward appearance. for example, whether she cares about what car she drives, what house she stays, which products she is using, etc. if you see that she chose all the expensive or branded ones for everything, then it most probably means that she actually will dislike if her subordinates using the same as her. psycollogically speaking, this kind of boss is those with high pride or ego, which means they could easily feel embarrassed when people around her saying she is wearing the same dress as her subordinates. it's like saying her having a low taste or buying something cheap that even a very much lower rank staff is able to afford it. it's just an example, i don't mean that your rank is very much lower than her, or that your taste cannot be as high as her, or you are unable to afford to buy the same thing as her. i'm actually just commenting from her point of view as a boss. anyway, if she is not a person who cares much about outward appearance, then there should be no issue will arise between you and her. as we know, some bosses don't put much attention on their outward appearance as they are more focus on their work quality. these type of bosses are usually more down to earth and humble, when talking about outward appearance. the only issue left maybe is some rumours among the colleagues who are jealous with you, will try to say bad things about you, like you are trying to act similar like your boss, which you should just ignore them.

I feel awkward seeing somebody wearing the same dress as the one I'm in when I'm going shopping or anywhere around town, and I guess it would feel weirder when that person is in my workplace, because we get to stay in the same area for a lot of hours, so the other person being my boss would probably be least I want to happen. I have not experienced this yet, thankfully, although it sounds like it should not be a big deal, I just think that it's how I would feel.

You've got the same taste as your boss, so what's wrong with it? Nothing! You shouldn't feel bad about it. It may feel a bit awkward but hey, you didn't plan to wear the same clothes like hers, right? Just don't mind people telling you things about it.

hello friend, some people may take it light and don't care about that, but some really care ,as they don't wont their subordinates to dress like them, this a kind of superior feeling they have. yes of course ,how can we know what they are going to wear? this common sense should be there in the boss

Hello joycseer Oh! I know how you feel. It's like and awkward situation, right? I remember this kind of scenario though it didn't happen to my boss but I was totally embarrassed. I went to a government agency to process some important documents. I noticed that the girl wore the same brand, same style and color of my blouse..:(. Really embarrassing and it seems like I wanna hide my face to everybody. So what I did, I just smiled at her and she smiled in return,wave her hand and said awkwardly "Hi". I don't wanna wear that clothes anymore. .

I'd feel somewhat embarrassed if I wore the same dress as anyone let alone my boss. Ok, what you need to do is run over to the toy store right now and get yourself a Magic 8 Ball......Lol not really... As you said though its not like you can call her up every night and plan out your outfits lol. There is no way of knowing what she'll be wearing the next day. I'm sure she realizes that and while both of you might of felt a little uncomfortable one day she isn't going to hold it against you. In fact maybe now she thinks your a person with great taste lol. This may not exactly work with all outfits but I think I have an idea that might help you. If you maybe decide to wear that dress again but you're afraid this incident repeating itself why not carry a sweater or something? Granted its not going to dramatically change your entire look but at least you're not going to be exactly like you're boss.

I will feel very embarrassed if I wear the same dress as well as my boss. Because people can't help comparing to our look and then make the comments. But obviously you have the same taste as well as your boss and perhaps she shall think about this positive way?

I don't usually see my boss, but last week when I was invited to have a nice dinner with him together with some other colleagues, I found that we were wearing almost the same style shirt. I felt a little embarrassed about it. It is the first time that it so happened that we were wearing the same style, though not exactly. Take care.joycseer.

I don't wear dresses but I had to chime in anyway. One time I wore the same outfit as a guy when I went to the movies. We just acknowledged each other and went about our night. I guess it matters to women when they wear the same thing because they want to be independent in their style even though there are only a few places to shop and only a few styles to choose from anyway.

I'm not really sure if men have the same reaction as that of women if they find themselves in a situation like this. True, it would be a little awkward, but I don't think there's anything wrong with it. And I guess this applies to both gender. There might be immature colleagues of yours who would make an issue out of it, but don't let it bother you. Things like this happens. Unless we're psychics, we really don't have any way of knowing what another person would wear.

That won't happen to me. My superiors are required to wear formal attire, and we're not. I guess it would be awkward if this ever happened to someone, especially if the person is not close with his/her boss. LOL

I did happened in the office with two of my girl colleagues. They did have the same kind of clothes but just in different colors and just happened that they did wear it on the same day. We dont noticed it at all since we are busy at work that time yet during lunch break someone finally noticed it and all of us laugh together.

Thanks a ton for posting this discussion. Well i can understand the situation u might have gone through when your boss wore the same dress as yours and it had got many thoughts inside your mind at that moment. U must be feeling as if the boss will get angry and will fire u from your job. I know those are quite obvious thoughts but u cannot help either. Just chill and such things happens in life. No need to get worried. What say?

It might be awkward, I guess. But I can handle it well, I just hope my boss will also take nicely to it. If I did some sort of "bad reps" to that incident, I can always say that it's expensive and we have expensive tastes, lol!